Pasadena Motorcycle Accident Lawyer

Vehicle Code § 21658.1 defines lane splitting as riding a two-wheeled motorcycle between rows of stopped or moving vehicles in the same lane, and authorizes the California Highway Patrol to develop educational guidelines. It does not make the practice unlawful, and no other California statute prohibits it.

Insurers routinely treat splitting as fault in itself. It is not. Fault is decided on the ordinary rules of the road — speed, lane position, following distance, and whether the driver looked before moving over.

The city's own safety plan reports that at Fair Oaks Ave and Maple St, a signalized intersection beside the 210 and 134 ramps, the City counted 47 collisions, with traffic signal and sign violations the leading cause at 27 percent and unsafe speed second at 13.5 percent. Citywide, the plan reports unsafe speed (1,185 collisions), automobile right-of-way violations (948) and improper turning (881) as the most frequently cited factors.

Those are exactly the behaviors that injure riders. Vehicle Code § 21801 requires a driver turning left to yield to oncoming traffic close enough to be a hazard, and Vehicle Code § 22107 permits a lane change only when it can be made with reasonable safety and after signalling.

Huntington Hospital, 100 W. California Blvd, is a designated trauma center in the Los Angeles County EMS trauma system and the closest one for most of Pasadena.

Keep the helmet, the jacket and the gear, and photograph the motorcycle before any repair. Those items document the forces involved better than any description of them.